The Business: The wealth gap

Aditya Chakrabortty and the panel discuss money, inequality and avarice. Does the credit crunch mean we've reached the tipping point in the age of greed? With Polly Toynbee, Larry Elliott, Richard Reeves and Robert Frank

On a special edition of The Business podcast, Aditya Chakrabortty is joined by a panel of experts to discuss inequality in 2009. Does it really matter that the rich are getting richer? Has the economic meltdown changed traditional socio-economic relationships? And can Gordon Brown or Barack Obama do anything to close the wealth gap?

Meanwhile Robert H Frank, professor or economics and author of The Return of the Economic Naturalist, and the Wall Street Journal's Robert Frank (no relation) give us a taste of the life of the super-rich in America.